Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

Haptic Feedback and Sensory Enhancements New developments in haptic technology enable players to feel in-game actions, such as the recoil of a gun or the texture of objects. AI-driven game mechanics and VRs deep immersion are pushing the boundaries of whats possible in gaming. The answer is a resounding yes.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Game designers must work closely with other development team members, like developers and artists, to guarantee that the video game mechanics and elements work together smoothly.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

With my artistic background, I focused less on programming and mechanics, and more on storytelling and visuals.” I opted for low poly 3D models with realistic textures, which I pixelated to harmonise with the pixel art style. “I decided to make a game that I can do by myself.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

Unity's imperfect WebGL export is objectively more promising than Unreal publicly dropping web support in 2020 (not that Epic's web support was ever good anyway) I tried using UE4 already , learning enough to prototype basic game mechanics and build 90% art passed levels. I'm not an expert, but I've learned much more than a beginner.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Level design is a part of video game design that focuses specifically on designing game levels (an area or stage a player must complete before moving on to the next one) while keeping in mind the architecture, layout, video game mechanics , and pace to keep the players invested in the game. Define the gameplay mechanics.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

It contains the game’s proposed design like the concept of the game, genre, core game mechanics, gameplay, timeline, illustrations/sketches, story and characters, levels and monetization strategies. Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of C# programming to effectively manipulate game objects, create gameplay mechanics, and handle events. Use asset stores wisely Unity Asset Store offers a wide range of free and paid assets, such as 3D models, textures, sound effects, and plugins.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

These models can produce game content, including music, textures, characters, mechanics, and even levels. As a result, it improves the overall game mechanics and makes the game more challenging yet exciting for players. This technology is being used to develop unique and diverse objects, textures, and characters for games.

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Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

and above versions, the engine’s built-in pipeline is built based on the CRP pipeline, making the engine’s built-in pipeline and the user’s custom pipeline have the same rendering mechanism and process, with stronger compatibility and stability. Alipay mini-game platform supports ASTC compressed texture format.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 28, 2024

Access to a wide variety of assets The Unity Asset Store has a massive library of free and commercial 3D assets, including 3D models, textures, sound effects, tutorials, music, animations, editor extensions, and plugins, that can be used to create more detailed and immersive games.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Texture and Model Glitches Errors in the texture and model of your game can significantly detract from the visual appeal of the game. For instance, texture glitches may involve gaming assets failing to load appropriately, leading to missing or blurry textures. This impacts player immersion negatively.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. For instance, you can use vibrant colors, dynamic lighting, and realistic textures to “take” players into an entirely different world. And that’s where mobile game analytics come in handy.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. For instance, you can use vibrant colors, dynamic lighting, and realistic textures to “take” players into an entirely different world. And that’s where mobile game analytics come in handy.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Brief Analysis of Deferred Rendering Two Main Steps 1、Preparation（Geometry Rendering） In this phase, the basic information needed for the lighting calculation of the model is rendered and stored in different render textures. So, how do we obtain all these render textures? such as position, normal, color, PBR parameters, and so on.

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a straightforward point-and-shoot game, with no complex controls or mechanics. These characters are highly detailed, with cartoonish textures and animations that perfectly capture their personalities. Players must defend their porcelain throne from waves of invading cute animals.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For instance, Unreal Engine uses a mechanism known as the Derived Data Cache (DDC) for this purpose. The Derived Data Cache in Unreal Engine serves as a storage mechanism for data that is computationally expensive to generate. It accommodates both network I/O and disk I/O operations with the help of I/O credit mechanism.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. All of the moving obstacles have implemented different mechanics, that make player behave in a certain way. As a result, the car has more contrast, and its shape is more clear.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. To create textures (materials), but also character portraits, environment (concept) art and pretty much anything I could imagine.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Instead of computing the amount of light that reaches a certain surface every frame for every light source, we precompute all this information and store it in a single texture. The process of generating light map texture coordinates takes a while, and it was being triggered on every scene reimport.

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Adjusted the scrollbar of various module panels in the project settings, optimized texture compression interface interaction (need to test if there are any abnormal displays on various pages, especially the texture compression page). Optimized texture compression task scheduling and build progress display during compression.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. Once I realized that we were going to have to ditch the core mechanism, that kind of meant something like starting over.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

The simplicity of the 2D style laid the foundation for gameplay mechanics and player interactions, particularly in platformers and side-scrollers. Involves creation of 3D models by applying textures and developing detailed materials and rigs. These games used 2D sprites, with each frame presenting a specific pose.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day. Similarly, Buffs are the kind of changes that are made when certain features or video game mechanics need to be tweaked to make them significant in the game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This is Godot's main mechanism for memory management. A Ninepatch element is a (usually textured) rectangle that has a fixed margin for the borders. The same approach shouldn't be used in GLES2, since some drivers work a lot better if no dependent texture reads are performed.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 8, 2018

Brandon: Or you can do what we do in the US with paper money and make everything the same length and texture. Brandon: In general, you want mechanics to de-emphasize fiddly actions as much as possible. But that doesn’t work in a game purely because of how rapidly money circulates in a game economy. That’s why you avoid it.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The payload registers are the mechanism NVIDIA OptiX offers for passing arbitrary data along with a ray, from the caller that traces a ray, and back. This payload mechanism is very lightweight, similar to passing arguments to a function. Red fabric with golden texture rendered with Houdini XPU.

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

A reliable system of interaction for puzzle mechanics. The telescope lens projection in a VR world. Genre-specific challenges in VR. The adventure game genre itself requires to take several UX challenges in consideration.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

The mechanics of the game rely on food and restraint upgrades which allow the user to advance through the game. As a result, when a dish is upgraded, it requires a different texture or possibly an entirely new model. Technologies Used. Project Challenges. Food models. Consider a specific dish that can be upgraded up to 5 times.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2024

It is one of the most upcoming technologies of the times whose mechanism depends on collecting relevant data and understanding the physics of the system that will be replicated. Haptic Technology uses engineering, neuroscience, and a set of mechanical components to stimulate our sense of touch.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A mechanism to support them in DirectX has been available for a while but not widely documented. This post explains the mechanism for using them in DirectX. Unlike OpenGL or Vulkan, DirectX unfortunately doesn’t have a native mechanism for vendor-specific extensions. More information is shared later in this post. ]

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

After working with the hair cards for awhile, it dawned on Pete that he could actually create a proxy texture that would easily troubleshoot the orientation of each card. During his first official pass, Pete was finally able to make the textures and shaders work in tandem. 3D Environmental Design. Level Design.

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Game Errors

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Lower the resolution and reduce the quality of various settings like shadows, textures, and effects. Adjust specific settings like Power management mode to Prefer maximum performance and Texture filtering – Quality to High performance. Open Ghostrunner 2 and navigate to the settings menu. Go to Manage 3D settings.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

We especially love the scale-like indentations Bianca has started to add and we can't wait to see how he looks with painting and textures. The texturing featured in the below video is just a stand-in, but you can see how this plugin helps us better tame this feline fur. 3D Environmental Design.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software’s scripting and coding support is critical for implementing game mechanics, logic, and interactivity. The ability to iterate on game design ideas efficiently is crucial for refining gameplay mechanics and optimizing user experience.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. Developers make final touches to enhance immersion, like adding depth to landscapes or improving textures. Production Production is where the magic unfolds.

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